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11 title(s)
The Chosen
Fiction 4.9/5
The Chosen
By Chaim Potok
Classic novel of friendship, tradition, fathers and sons, and Jewish identity in America.
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My Name Is Asher Lev
Fiction 4.8/5
My Name Is Asher Lev
By Chaim Potok
Novel of artistic calling, family loyalty, and religious tension.
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As a Driven Leaf
Fiction 4.7/5
As a Driven Leaf
By Milton Steinberg
Historical novel about faith, doubt, and intellectual rebellion in rabbinic times.
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Call It Sleep
Fiction 4.5/5
Call It Sleep
By Henry Roth
Modernist immigrant novel about Jewish life in New York.
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Bread Givers
Fiction 4.6/5
Bread Givers
By Anzia Yezierska
Immigrant family story about poverty, gender, rebellion, and self-making.
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Herzog
Fiction 4.5/5
Herzog
By Saul Bellow
A brilliant and neurotic intellectual’s inner life laid bare.
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Goodbye, Columbus
Fiction 4.4/5
Goodbye, Columbus
By Philip Roth
Sharp stories of postwar Jewish America, class, desire, and assimilation.
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Marjorie Morningstar
Fiction 4.4/5
Marjorie Morningstar
By Herman Wouk
Popular novel about ambition, romance, and Jewish life in mid-century America.
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A Guest for the Night
Fiction 4.4/5
A Guest for the Night
By S.Y. Agnon
Literary novel by Israel’s Nobel Prize-winning writer.
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The Pagan Rabbi
Fiction 4.5/5
The Pagan Rabbi
By Cynthia Ozick
Stories of theology, desire, intellect, and Jewish imagination.
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Tevye the Dairyman
Fiction 4.8/5
Tevye the Dairyman
By Sholem Aleichem
Classic Yiddish stories behind Fiddler on the Roof.
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